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In the latest video of our Ask a Dev series, iOS Engineer Andrew Frederick breaks down the different reasons for using beacons and geofencing. "Beacons and geofencing try to achieve a similar goal. They both want to identify a user's proximity to a p...

Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that. Twitter posted these maps of Europe, New York City, Tokyo and Istanbul on its blog Friday. They use billions of geotagged tweets...

If seasonal allergies have you avoiding the great outdoors this spring, you can actually enjoy a bike ride through New York City without stepping outside. Dutch startup Cyclodeo mashes together biking and video to create a digital resource for cyclin...

What does where we tweet say about how we live and work? That's one of the questions Oakland-based programmer Eric Fischer hoped to answer with his latest mapping project. Fischer, a mapping fanatic and artist, is used to displaying vast amounts of i...

Flickr has introduced a new privacy feature called geofences that allows users to create geographic privacy settings for photos' location data. With the new feature, Flickr users can draw a circle on a map to designate a geofence and then choose a ge...

The AP Stylebook released new social media guidelines, which included such changes as turning "Web site" into "website," last summer. And now the language-dedicated tome just released a few more social media-oriented changes. The 2011 AP Stylebook wi...

Dan Klamm is the Outreach & Marketing Coordinator at Syracuse University Career Services. This post was co-authored by Kelly Lux who is the Social Media Manager at Syracuse University's iSchool. Connect with them on Twitter @DanKlamm and @KellyLux. L...

Twitter is undeniably useful as a standalone service, but it becomes so much more fun when you start factoring in all the cool tools and awesome apps available. We've previously brought you various Twitter visualization services, but now we're taking...

Yan-David Erlich is the founder & CEO of photography app Mopho. He was also the founder and CEO of Social.im and a product manager in the digital media consumer web group at Google. Location-based social networks are currently enjoying a great deal o...

For all their buzz and value, location-based social networks haven't really gone mainstream yet. Only 7% of Americans are aware of location-based social networks, according to data from Edison Research. Part of the explanation for this is that the ma...

Earlier this year we predicted that Twitter would use geotagging to identify physical places via Twitter, and today Evan Williams announced at the Chirp conference that the company is doing just that with its new Points of Interest feature. The featu...

SimpleGeo -- which officially launches out of private beta tomorrow -- offers a suite of sophisticated geo-data products for purchase. The service targets individual developers and businesses who want to immediately build or enhance location-based ap...

Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they've been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of ...

Posterous is the instant email-to-blog-to-everywhere platform for livestreaming, photo and video sharing, group blogs, and just about anything else you can dream up. And they recently stole the crown from Tumblr in the middle space between blogging a...

As of today, there's a special Opera build available, one that supports geolocation. On the user end, you can install it and simply chose to share your location; from the developer's point of view, this build brings support for the geolocation API, w...

VentureBeat has discovered that FriendFeed has quietly rolled out a new feature: support for geotagging and geoRSS. This means that whenever you update a service that contains location information, FriendFeed will display a map with your location tog...

EveryTrail is an iPhone app that lets you record your journey with geotagged photos that are automatically added to a slideshow at their website. These trips can be hikes, runs, bike rides, walks or whatever you want. The app's interface is simple an...

There are quite a few mobile utilities that allow you to network with friends (and even people you don’t know so much) with a map as a backdrop. Some have been around for years, to greater or lesser effect. Relative to Facebook and MySpace and things...

Drop.io, the file hosting and sharing service of considerable renown in Web world, particularly among those who espouse the need to keep things simple and easy and cheap without excess baggage, is moving along with another upgrade to its feature set....

Updated: If you’re at all a fan of simple, minimalist publishing services like Tumblr, Streem or Posterous, the last one being a relatively new launch, Placefav is something you may well enjoy. Its utility is very specific, mind you. Can’t quite toss...

When JuiceCaster first launched in 2006, we weren't very convinced with the service. "Was it MySpace for cell phones?" But after two years, multiple awards and over $6 million in funding, JuiceCaster has proven itself to be a heavy hitter when it com...

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